Texas Instruments, the biggest maker of analog and embedded processing chips, gave a forecast that topped estimates but failed to excite investors, who have bid up the company’s shares this year

”The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.” George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Two months left before the UK government requires all content on British citizens' mobile devices to be scanned. Piccadilly Circus, London: Nineteen Eighty-Four was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

Most financial instruments are already digital. That part isn't new. Darko Hajdukovic (Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure, LSEG) on Tokenized with our hosts Simon Taylor and Cuy Sheffield said: "The new thing here isn't that it's digitally represented. It is that you can now do things which you couldn't do before." Round the clock settlement and activity on public chains are the kind of things that becomes possible once DIGIT and the LSE move onto shared DLT infrastructure. Everything discussed here, DIGIT included, is subject to regulatory approval. 🎙️ Listen to the latest episode on

Scientists who were instrumental in shutting down the Covid lab-leak theory admitted in private "we can’t rule it out" months after publishing a paper closing down the possibility, newly released messages show.

Without new instruments to coordinate the financing of the AI boom, America's AI progress will be slowed as concentrated financial risk skyrockets. America can beat China, but to do so, it needs to lean into its own institutional strengths.